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Show OLD CRADLE COMES BACK. 'et Weather Compels Resort to Primitive Prim-itive Methods. In 1855, which was before the modern mod-ern reaper and binder had been invented, in-vented, all grain was cradled, and by employment of that primitive method the loss to the farmers was considerably consider-ably reduced. Now the soil is so thoroughly saturated with water that the heavy machines are rendered practically useless, and many farmers have gone back to the cradle to save If possible, some portion of their bad- ly deteriorating crops. It is a common com-mon sight to see farmers in rubber boots wading through the sodden soil, cutting their wet and often growing crop of wheat with an old-fashioned cradle. The dealers here cannot supply sup-ply the demand for these old implements, imple-ments, for the cradle a score of years ago was stowed away with the spinning spin-ning -wheel and candlesticks. Not only have the old cradles been brought Into use, but new ones have been ordered. or-dered. The dealers here kept nothing of the kind, and have with difficulty found them among the Jobbers of th3 state Geneva (N. Y.) dispatch. |